

He's a great guy on and off the court, we get along really well and I wish him all the best. He added: "I have to give credit to Denis for playing really well. "I spent a lot of time in the mountains with wolves and this is wolf energy there. "Failure was never an option for me or my family, we had to find a way to fund the basic needs to survive. "Part of it is genes, my family, the way I have grown up during difficult times in the 90s for my country," he said, referring to the Nato bombings of Belgrade during the Kosovo War.

American qualifier Kudla, a strong grass-court player, had held a 4-1 lead in the third-set tie-break but let his advantage slip.ĭjokovic credited his upbringing for his fighting, animalistic instinct.
